[roenxi]

Without disagreeing - if that is what happened to her relationship with someone close to her, what would have happened in a care facility of people who don't have any personal connection at all? These care facilities don't sound like fun either.

Fact is that getting old can be a truly horrible process. Which is why the pro-euthanasia people keep standing up.

[pmorici]

After she was too much for my aunt even with a part time home healthcare worker she did move to a care facility where she has lived for the past ~7 years. The two she has lived at are decent from what I can tell and close enough to family that someone visits her on a pretty much daily basis. Both ways can work.